Weekend Photo Fun - March 31st through April 2nd, 2023

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Hello everyone, and welcome to a new weekend!

This week my share is my map I have been working on for the Eastern Division of the STRATTON AND GILLETTE RAILROAD system.

It is surely not much to see yet, but I am not a cartographer, so this project is taking a long time.

I am looking forward to seeing everyone’s photographs this weekend. This thread can always be counted on to be the best of the week.

-Kevin

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Dragons by Bear, on Flickr

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Thanks for setting up our ‘April Fools’ WPF, Kevin! Looks like you’ll be building lots of bridges and toting lots of fill for your S&G Eastern (Martime?) Division. Looks like FUN!

Well, it got the Bear’s interest, anyway [:)]

I got a surprise email Monday stating my NYC Commodore Vanderbilt Hudson is on its way. It arrived Thursday and it is a beautiful model!

NYC_Commodore-3 by Edmund, on Flickr

NYC_Commodore-1 by Edmund, on Flickr

In a twist of good fortune I just happened to finish up a pair of Mercury coach and Parlor car this week, although this isn’t the Mercury engine it certainly could have had these cars behind her at one time or another.

NYC_Mercury-coach by Edmund, on Flickr

I dusted off a couple of streamlined companions for a portrait:

NYC_Commodore-pals by Edmund, on Flickr

The New York Central 5344 had quite a storied history:

https://www.trains.com/ctr/railroads/locomotives/new-york-central-4-6-4-hudson-no-5344-in-four-photos/

Another arrival this

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Kevin. Thanks for starting this weeks WPF.

Always good to know where the trains are to go and come from…

And Bear is interested.

Ed. Good looking Hudson. The streamliners look good also.

Myself. I have had other challenges this week. Not done anything.

A couple of of photographs.

A York bound passenger train.

IMG_5280 by David Harrison, on Flickr

A freight train on its way to The National Filling Station Number 1, Barnbow.

IMG_5148 by David Harrison, on Flickr

David

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Good morning from cloudy, cool and rainy Northeast Ohio!

Kevin, thanks for starting us out, great track plan!!!

Bear, that is a wonderful “Beartoon”!!!

Ed, Never cared for the upside down bathtup type of streamlining, I can’t wait to pickup my Rapido trailers tonight.

David, thanks for some more of your beautiful layout pictures.

I did nothing this past week, what with the bowling tournament and getting my wife ready to go to Pasadena for my daughters 40th birthday. So I will post a couple of my old Strongsville Club layout pictures.

A pair of Bowser C430’s with a Flexivan Train!!

A pair of heavily modified Atlas RS-32’s with a general freight!!

Have a great weekend!

Rick Jesionowski

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Not so many, the actual layout will only be a very small portion of the division. Just two of the cities.

The two cities are Centerville and Port Something. I keep changing my mind on the name of the second city.

Bear: I don’t know if you could zoom into it on the low-resolution image I posted, but this was the first detail I added to the map:

Thanks for the laugh.

-Kevin

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Not so many, the actual layout will only be a very small portion of the division. Just two of the cities.

-Kevin

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There was I lookng forward to something like --------

DS-Ammonia_Mæl_2004_SRS by David Harrison, on Flickr

David

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The carfloat scene will be included!

-Kevin

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[yeah]

David

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Here is a basic idea of how the layout will work, but some revision is required now.

-Kevin

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Kevin, thanks for starting the new weekend photo thread. I really wanted to see how you were going to build a model of that entire map! That would have been worth a trip to southern Florida for me!

Great caption, Bear.

Ed, I really like the coach and parlor car. Passenger cars are my favorite part of model railroads.

David, nice scenes. I like the old railroad junkyard.

Rick, very nice club rr scene.

Dan, more nice beer cars. Are you at 100 yet?

This is the N scratchbuilt warehouse from the old layout. I salvaged the building and will fix up some of it, and put in more junk before it gets put onto the new layout. At the rate things are going, that will be five years.

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I am around 105 right now. Actually stopped painting more as I have a couple of big customer jobs going right now. Most of the postings going forard will be from cars done over the last couple years that never made it to the forum. At some time in the future I may do a complete family shot if I can figure out a way to show them all at once.

Dan

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Great! Is this in a room so that you can walk around the layout to get the staging area?

Mike.

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Here’s a pair of GN 40 footers on a freight at North Powder. The left one is from Front Range and on the right, from McKean.[C):-)]

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I really should have known better, Kevin. The Beartoon was a no brainer, and while I did blow it up to almost A4 size to work on, it was only ‘til you mentioned it, did I blow it up further to see your art work!![:D]

I must admit that when it comes to streamlined locomotives, I’m a bit of a “fence sitter,” however that’s an interesting trio, Ed. I’ve never actually seen any Rapido products but those trailers look sharp.

Nothing wrong with photos from the archives, David, and Rick.

Pike-62, 105 cars, well done! I am presuming though that while the cars are “foobies” the breweries did/do exist.

At you’ll be still having Fun for at the very least another 5 years,

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Only Jared The Artist would be bold enough to take on the entire map of the Eastern Division. There are also Central, Midway, Western, Northern, Crosspoint, and Southern divisions of the SGRR as well.

Also, on the map, the Dawdle And Delay is Purple, and the Gorre And Daphetid (subject to change) is Blue.

I will have access to the staging area, but at this point I am not sure what it will look like.

Originally the plan was to add a doorway from the outside bathroom to the staging area, but I have since found out I cannot install a door into that wall.

Along with track plan modifications, reasonable access to staging will need to be worked out.

-Kevin

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There are a couple that that had actual prototypes. Genesee being one of them. All others are actual breweries/beers that did exist or still do. Most all are from the Pre -prohibition time frame or right after repeal. Even the Duff Beer from the Simpsons is a real beer brewed in several countries and sometimes using the actual label. So far I have focused on breweries that survived for a significant time frame. I have a listing of breweries from Buff

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Kevin, No foolin’, thanks for opening the April 1st WPF. Planning surely is part of the fun.

Thanks to all the contributors and viewers. Have a good weekend. Regards, Peter